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Which is not the same thing as Writer’s Block. In fact, it’s the opposite because now I don’t have to come up with a topic for Day 8 of the August Blogging Challenge put forth by Dani of Blogbooktours. Dani is like a shark when it comes to researching useful and interesing networking tools online – she never stops. If she did, I suspect she’d sink to the bottom of the cybersea and drown.

Here’s a modifed writers meme for members of the August Blog Challenge, three of whom get tagged at the end. These are my answers:

1) Computer, longhand, or other?
Computer or my beloved Alphasmart when I’m on the Muni. I’ll sometimes take notes longhand if I’m out and about and remember to take a notebook with me, but this is sometimes counterproductive because my handwriting is so awful I can’t always decipher what I’ve written!

2) Coffee or tea?
Er…what about wine?

I have a mocha first thing in the morning and will sometimes make a pot of coffee. If writing at night, I have a glass or two of wine and sip on it while I work. I like tea in the afternoons (I’m getting addicted to Peet’s Jasmine Downy Pearls green tea) with a couple of cookies as a treat.

3) Day or night?
I prefer to write in the day, but because I work full time most of my writing is down between 6 and 9pm. On weekends set aside for writing, both! I tend to fall asleep early, though.

4) Favorite genre to write?
Mysteries (humorous cozies), although I’m liking the paranormal/horror as well. Main thing for me is humor in whatever I write.

5) Pencil or pen to edit?
Pen!

6) Unusual writing quirk or trait?
I invariably work with at least one cat on my lap.

7) Writing from home or writing in a cozy café?
I am a big time homebody. I like to set my ‘office’ up, light candles, put on music, and tune out the world. I don’t think I could tune out the conversations going around me and I’d be bound to find myself writing ‘Can you hear me?…Yeah, I’m at STARbucks…’ when some loud idiot gets on his or her cell…

8) Music or silence while your write?
Music! I love film scores. I wrote MURDER FOR HIRE while listening to The Witches of Eastwick, which is a John Williams score.

10) Favorite bookmark?
Sigh. I’m so bad about using bookmarks. I’m an evil corner of the page folder downer (if they’re my books; I don’t do it with books I borrow) or if it has a book jacket, I use the front flap. I have dozens of bookmarks from my own promotional stockpile and from other writers. I love pretty bookmarks in theory, though…

11) Favorite fictional character of all time?
Oh jeez louise… that’s just mean. I will only answer this with the caveat that this changes with my mood. So at 8:55 am on 8/8/08, my favorite fictional character of all time is Scarlett O’Hara.

12) Most admired living writer today?
Another answer that will change depending on my mood. Today it’s Stephen King for his succinct and dead-on descriptions. His plots sometimes leave me cold, but when it comes to the actual craft of writing, he’s my man.